Rocking-chair attachment.



No. 740,278. PATENTED SEPT. 29, 1903'.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 29, 196d. I

'WILlllAM ll. HOWE, OF TALLADEGA, ALABAMA.

ROCKlNG-CHAIR ATTACHMENT.

5PECIFIGATION forming part, of Letters Pate-ntNo.

740,278, dated September 29, 1903.

Application filed September 8, 1902. Serial No, 122,626. (No model.)

of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Rocking-Chair Attachment, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates to attachments to rocking-chairs for the purpose of providing the chair with a yieldable shoe or bearingsurface beneath the rockers, of rubber, leather, or other similar suitable material; and the invention consists in a flexible metalstrip having inwardly-turned edges and adapted to support a strip of yieldable material-such as rubber, leather, or the like-the strip of yieldable material having longitudinal grooves adapted to receive the inturned edges of the metal strip and produced in lengths sufficient to form a plurality of the attachments, so that it may be out up into lengths for application to the chair.

The invention further consists in forming the metal strip with extending ears integral therewith, whereby the device may be at.- tached to the rockers.

Other novel features of the invention will appear in the annexed description and be specified in the claims.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, Figure 1 is a side View of a chair-rocker with the invention applied. Fig. 2 is a 1ongitudinal vertical section of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are transverse sections, enlarged, illustrating modifications in the construction. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the continuous strips from which the attachments may be cut for application to the rockers.

The devicemay be applied to any of the various forms of rocking-chairs, and for the purpose of illustration the conventional form of rocker is shown at 10.

The attachment consists of .a metal strip (indicated at 11) having inturned edges 12 13, thereby forming a fiat tubular structure in cross-section, with a longitudinal opening in one side. Secured within this tubular structure by its upper part is a strip 14 of flexible materiah-such as leather, rubber, or the like-the strip provided with longitudinal turned edges 12 13, as shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. By this simple means, it will be readily understood, the flexible strip lei: and the metal strip 11 are firmly united, and when the metal strip is secured beneath the rocker with the metal strip and the yieldable strip curved to conform to the rocker a yieldable shoe will be provided, which will receive the impact and concussions to which the rocker maybe subjected, and thus relieve the occupant of the chair from all jarring motion.

Any desired quality of the ruhheror leather may be employed so as to produce any degree of resiliency, and any thickness or size may be employed, as desired, or as the size of the rocker may require.

If desired, the sides of the yieldable member 14: may be extended, as shown in Fig. i,

to form guards to prevent the sides of the rocker coming in contact with surrounding objects.

The metal strips 14 may be constructed in any desired lengths; so that they may be produced as an article of manufacture and cut up into lengths for attachment to the rockers. This is an important feature of the invention and cannot be accomplished with any similar structure heretofore produced.

, The metal strips 11 will be constructed of material sufficiently light to enable them to be readily curved to conform to the rocker, while at the same time being of sufficient strength to withstand the strains to which they will be subjected when in use.

The metal employed may be of any desired quality or compound and may be plated or otherwise ornamented or colored to correspond to the rocker to which it is applied.

The metal strips 11 will be provided with ears 15'upon opposite sides-and adapted to extend into engagement with the opposite sides of the rocker 10 and affording means for the attachment of the strip to the rocker by screws or other fasteners 16. These cars will be spaced apartat as frequent intervals as may be required to properly secure the device to the rocker and maybe formed integral with the strip, as shown in Fig. 3, or formed separately and attached to the strip,

grooves in its sides adapted to engage the inas by soldering or brazing or otherwise fas= 11 and the flexible strips I tened. WVhen thus constructed, it is a Very simple matter to sever the metal strips, together with the yieldable strips supported thereby, into the proper lengths, placing them beneath the rocker and curving them to conform to the rocker, with the cars 15 upon opposite sides of the rocker, and securing them in place by inserting screws or nails through the ears into the wood of the rocker.

Inseveringthe connected stripsintolengths for attachment to, the rockers the metal strips will be cut a trifle longer than the rocker and the flexible strip cut the same length as the rocker or a trifle shorter and the extended end of the metal strip thereby produced bent over the severed ends of the flexible strip, as indicated in Fig. 2, to form guards to prevent longitudinal movement of the flexible strip. This is an important feature of the invention and adds materially to its efficiency withoutincreasing the cost or Weight.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. As a new article of manufacture, an attachment for the rockers of chairs consisting of a flexible metal strip having inwardly-extending opposite edges and with spaced ears extending therefrom, and a corresponding strip of yieldable material having longitudinal grooves engaging said inwardly-extending edges and supported thereby in place upon the metal strip, said connected strips adapted to be cut into lengths for attachment by means of said ears to the rockers, to

form yieldable shoes thereto, substantially as described.

I 2. As a new article of manufacture, an attachment for rockers of chairs consisting of a flexible metal strip having inwardly-extending opposite edges and-with spaced ears integral therewith and extending therefrom, and a corresponding strip of yieldable material having longitudinal grooves engaging said inwardly-extending edges and supported thereby in place upon a metal strip, said connected strips adapted to be cut into lengths for attachment by means of said ears to the rockers, substantially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, an attachment for rockers of chairs consisting of a flexible metal strip having inwardly-extending opposite edges, and a corresponding strip of yieldable material having longitudinal grooves engaging said inwardly-extending edges and supported thereby in place upon the metal strip, said connected strips adapted to be cut into lengths for attachment to the rockers with the flexible strip shorter than the metal strip and the extended portion of the metal strip bent over the end of theflexible strip to prevent longitudinal movement thereof,substantial1y as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM H. HOWE.

\Vitnesses:

W. R. BRANNON, O. W. LOKEY. 

